Geography
History
Culture
Government
Economy
100
Things that affect climate.
What is latitude (nearness to equator), elevation, and wind patterns?
100
Men from Spain and Portugal searching for treasure in the Americas.
What are the Conquistadors?
100
The main religion brought to Latin America by Europeans.
What is Roman Catholic?
100
The one country in Latin American with rule by one.
What is Cuba?
100
An important crop in Latin America.
What is coffee?
200
It helped increase trade between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
200
They were searching for new trade routes to Asia.
Why did Europeans first sail west toward the Americas?
200
This country colonized Haiti and influenced its culture.
What is France?
200
Most countries in Latin America have governments that are rule by _____.
What is many?
200
To add variety by having different crops or industries.
What is to diversify?
300
They provide food, hydroelectricity, and transportation where there are few roads.
What are ways that rivers help people in Latin America?
300
The Treaty of Tordesillas set this to show where Spain & Portugal could trade and settle.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
300
Language, Religion, Customs, Government, and Economy.
What are elements of culture?
300
The specific type of government found in Haiti.
What is a republic?
300
Economic freedom, free exchange of goods, and able to own private property or companies.
What is free-enterprise?
400
A major landform on the west side of South America that has limited trade & travel across the continent.
What is the Andes mountains?
400
The Inca's had these achievements to help increase farmland in the mountains.
What are terraces and aqueducts?
400
An area where people share common cultural traits.
What is a culture region?
400
A government where the people have power.
What is limited?
400
Countries in Latin America are trying to _______ their economies so that they are not dependent on one resource or crop.
What is diversify?
500
The landform that allowed the Panama Canal to be built.
What is an isthmus?
500
Europeans changed Latin America through these two actions.
What is colonization and conquest?
500
The group of people brought to Latin America as a workforce.
What are the African Slaves?
500
North American country with a government that is rule by many.
What is Canada or the United States?
500
The resources in Latin America. (describe the distribution)
What is varied within the region?
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